The author suggests that human beings could eliminate their usual feelings of disturbance and upsetness and retain their appropriate feelings of disappointment and annoyance if they stop demanding and awfulizing" reality and dictating that it be other than it indubitably is. (Author/CG)

Human figure drawings of 316 public school pupils (8 to 16 years old), half of whom were referred for counseling services, were analyzed using the Koppitz system of indicators of emotionality. A factor analysis of the data produced one easily interpretable factor comprised of emotional indicators for missing body parts within the drawings. (Author)

Three major problems are discussed in relation to helping disturbed children: assessment practices, the nature of emotional disturbance, and the treatment of emotional problems. The need for objectively defining emotional problems and rationally designing programs to meet individual child needs is stressed. (Author)

Three models of intentional therapeutic communities for troubled youth are described: psychiatric communities, communities with a spiritual orientation, and collectives inspired by A. Makarenko. Applications of the Makarenko model with adolescents having problems of substance abuse and serious social maladjustment in Sweden, Norway, and Denmark…

Described are methods used to help David, an emotionally disturbed and learning disabled 8-year-old child, learn basic reading skills and overcome his emotional problems in a residential school. (DB)

Survey responses from 66 adult referrals to a mental health clinic for mentally retarded persons revealed that four diagnostic groupings (schizophrenic symptomatology, antisocial behavior, depression, and personality disorder) accounted for 51 of the 66 referrals. Results emphasized the need for mental health services for this population. (CL)

This bibliography was compiled in response to information needs of persons directly involved with emotionally disturbed children from birth through kindergarten. Teachers, social workers, psychologists, administrators and parents are alerted to articles, books, and films published between 1960-1970. All materials located on preschool programs for…

A program in use at a small community college for emergencies involving emotionally disturbed persons on campus is described. (MM)

The Mooney Problem Check List was used to help define the characteristics of reported problems in emotionally disturbed adolescents and for data on normal controls. Possible effects of age and sex on problems reported by both groups were also examined. (Author/NJ)

This study examines recent evidence that many children with learning disabilities (LD) have accompanying behavior problems, especially children who experience academic difficulties in school but who are not formally diagnosed as LD. Subjects were 85 referrals to a university educational assessment center from 1991 to 1994. The subjects, 58 males…

This paper discusses a case study of therapeutic intervention with a 2-year-old boy. The child's major presenting symptom is intractable insomnia caused by nightmares, but his problems are linked to general patterns resulting from early paternal loss. The report analyzes the first 30 sessions of treatment. Discussion focuses on the unusual…

The study is a reinvestigation of the effectiveness of the Trail Making Test in discriminating between 51 brain damaged and 72 pseudoneurologic hospitalized male veterans (mean age 36 years). (Author/PHR)

The Beck Depression Inventory was administered to 33 mothers with a history of mild intellectual disability and 97 contrast group mothers. Mothers with intellectual disability scored significantly higher on the inventory and three times as many scored above a cutoff score considered to be indicative of depression. There were also differences in…

Logotherapy is a meaning-centered psychotherapy which focuses on both the meaning of human existence and the personal search for meaning. If the will to search for meaning is frustrated, "existential frustration" may result. This study validates the Existential Anxiety Scale (EAS) developed by Good and Good (1974). Basic principles of…